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I have little experience in being a web application administrator however I am a software developer. I inherited support for a legacy application that jkMount's a JBoss application server farm and the front end are two Apache 2.2.8 with OpenSSL servers preconfigured and running on Windows Server 2003.

The recent publicized security flaw triggered a response from my manager that I need to upgrade the Apache servers to the most secure version, 2.2.21.

I believe I know what I need to do in theory but I have never personally installed or upgraded Apache before so I am a little nervous. My plan was to:

  • Backup the existing installation location completely

  • Stop the Apache Servers

  • Install to the same location via the MSI installer I downloaded

  • Replace the installed contents of the /conf/ directory with the backed up contents of the pre-configured /conf/ directory (including SSL certs).

  • Restart the servers and pray to God/Allah/Spaghetti Monster.

Do you see anything that I may be missing? I imagine the only differences between 2.2.8 and 2.2.21 are just security updates and that configuration files should be interchangeable?

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FYI, I updgraded Apache on my local test server following roughly these steps and it was a lot easier than I thought. The uninstaller for the old version left all of my configurations and third party modules untouched. I just installed the new version and everything is working fine, including SSL on test. – maple_shaft Sep 16 '11 at 16:29
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Yup, you have it down fine, I was going to suggest testing it on another server first if you could, then I read your comment.

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Thanks! I feel more confident now. I was hoping to get a quick and easy answer. I will do this tonight, if all goes well I will award you the points. – maple_shaft Sep 16 '11 at 19:56
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